Doughnuts, coffee, legislation: Tim Hortons could set up in first-ever food station at Capitol building

LANSING — Tim Hortons could offer sales at the Michigan Capitol building under a deal that's in the works.

A former state House press room could be converted for food service and it would be the first such arrangement at the building, WLNS-TV reports. The station says the Canadian-based coffee-and-doughnut chain is talking with the Commission for the Blind, which has rights to sell food in state buildings.

Republican state Rep. John Walsh of Livonia said he's excited about the possibility of the business coming and hiring workers.

Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat from East Lansing, said she has questions about the plans and whether it would lead to other deals.